Finger painters to fine artists, poets to punk rockers, are invited to submit their Shakespeare-inspired art to be considered for a special ga…
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Great River Shakespeare Festival is now selling early-bird subscriptions to its 18th Summer Season running June 18 to July 31, 2022.
Here’s a guide to this weekend’s area events:
Great River Shakespeare Festival’s Front Porch series, in collaboration with Winona State University, presents a panel discussion at 11 a.m. S…
On Saturday, June 29, Great River Shakespeare Festival will open William Shakespeare’s “Macbeth.” Spurred by a prophecy from three witches tha…
Great River Shakespeare Festival (GRSF) has been partnering with Twin Cities’ Group Shakespearean Youth Theatre to bring Shakespeare performan…
Great River Shakespeare Festival will be hosting a free Design Expo as part of its annual Design Weekend.
Another successful Great River Shakespeare Festival/Maria W. Faust Sonnets Contest ended on Aug. 4 with a public reading of 24 winning sonnets…
Great River Shakespeare Festival will host another of its Front Porch Events at 11 a.m. Saturday, featuring a Women in Performing Arts panel. …
Great River Shakespeare Festival has another full weekend planned for Winonans and travelers alike. In addition to many plays and free concert…
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By the summer of 2007, I had fallen in love with theater, adored the works of Shakespeare and had begun to understand the special kind of magi…
Carrie Nath was recently named the director of education for the Great River Shakespeare Festival in Winona.
Bold, courageous voices have spoken truth to power throughout history. In Choral Arts Ensemble’s first concert of the 2017-18 season, it celeb…
I’ve lived in Winona for only eight months now, but I cannot imagine living anywhere else.
If there’s one thing Aaron Young loves about his job, it’s a skeptic.
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Every time that Artistic Director Doug Scholz-Carlson and Managing Director Aaron Young announce at the beginning of each play (12 times for m…
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Great River Shakespeare Festival has added another performance of 'An Iliad' to the final week of the festival due to high demand.
Great River Shakespeare Festival will be presenting its annual variety show fundraiser, Callithump!, at 7 p.m. Tuesday, July 25.
The Winona State University Landscape Arboretum and the Great River Shakespeare Festival will host a tree and garden tour at 9:30 a.m. Saturda…
Why does Winona have the Great River Shakespeare Festival? Why do people come from all over the region to see it in Winona? What does it do fo…
As snowbirds from the South, John and I flew up (literally) recently, anticipating the incredible arts here. Already the Winona Municipal Band…
Great River Shakespeare Festival generates more than $1.3 million of economic activity annually and inspires artistic and social growth in Win…